Beauty
The Myths of Girlhood
we were spoiled for reality by milk chocolate-coated fairy tales force fed us as girls made to swallow not spit myths about beauty love sex taught that only pretty, pretty princesses could be awoken by true love’s first kiss impossible standards of beauty femininity made for bitter cherry centers that left us empty starving hollow … Continue reading The Myths of Girlhood
Poetry Fragment: Diving Deep and Surfacing
The Myths of Girlhood
we were spoiled for reality by milk chocolate-coated fairy tales force fed us as girls made to swallow not spit myths about beauty love sex taught that only pretty, pretty princesses would be awoken by true love’s first kiss impossible standards of beauty femininity made for bitter cherry centers that left us empty starving hollow … Continue reading The Myths of Girlhood
Scent of Jasmine (revisited)
Curves call me across the room beg my palms to travel slowly languidly across your terrain Scent of jasmine permeates the air my brain reminder you are an exotic garden waiting to be explored Thick hair cascades like midnight tide down bare back I long to bury my face my hands into those … Continue reading Scent of Jasmine (revisited)
Dangerous Beauty
I reach for the dangerous beauty you hold in your eyes I know that those eyes that honey mouth with its silver tongue make all kinds of promises that you might deliver on Or not Depending on your mood or whether mercury is in retrograde or whatever coin you like to flip Heads you win … Continue reading Dangerous Beauty
Brave & Reckless 